All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

The envious will die, but envy never.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.